A single-volume edition of the major Greek tragedies
In a period of sixty-six years, three Athenian playwrights produced
a series of tragedies which became a touchstone for drama for the
next two and a half thousand years. The six plays in this volume
include Aeschylus' Persians (472 BC), the earliest surviving Greek
tragedy and only surviving 'history' play; his Prometheus Bound,
perhaps the most deeply mythological of all tragedies, presenting
an archetype of the human condition; Sophocles' Women of Trachis, a
deeply poignant piece, portraying Heracles' death through his
wife's mistake; his strange Philoctetes, which presents a
fascinating moral debate and a young man's realisation of the
importance of loyalty to his own ideals; Euripides' Trojan Women,
the greatest anti-war play ever written; and his intangible
Bacchae, a play full of paradoxes which functions at many different
levels.
The volume is edited and introduced by Marianne McDonald,
Professor of Theatre and Classics, University of California, San
Diego, and J. Michael Walton, Professor of Drama at the University
of Hull.
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